Some critics of the Trump administration’s Iran war say the problem is how it’s being waged. There was never a correct way to attack Iran, only a deadly disaster in the making.
Brad Lander Is Demanding an AIPAC-Free Congressional Race
Former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is demanding Rep. Dan Goldman sign a “People’s Pledge” ahead of the congressional primary pitting the two against each other to limit the influence of lobbying groups like AIPAC on campaign funding and advertising.
Sarah Sherman, Our Socialist at SNL
We spoke to Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman about doing body horror at a time of real horrors, the hope at the heart of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, and her emergence as a top local canvasser for Bernie Sanders’s last presidential run.
We Aren’t All Complicit in US Warmongering
US military operations like Donald Trump’s war on Iran are carried out in all of our names. That doesn’t make us collectively to blame for them.
Trump’s Historic Blunder in Iran
Both the White House and Israel wanted swift regime change in Iran. Instead they’ve triggered a spiraling conflict with no plausible endgame.
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.
France’s Communists Hold Back the Far Right, for Now
Blue-collar voters in northern France are often seen as a natural base for Marine Le Pen’s surging far right. Yet while her party has made major inroads in this electorate, local elections saw Communists resist what seemed like inevitable defeat.
Labor Wins When They Run Union Members for Office
A new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin shows how labor can play to its strengths — and win. The secret? Run more union members for office.
Giorgia Meloni Has Finally Suffered a Defeat
Through more than three years in power, Italian premier Giorgia Meloni has often seemed to have an electoral magic touch. Her defeat in a judicial-reform referendum today tells us she still can’t rewrite the country’s constitution at will.
Joe Rogan Hosted Canada’s Free Market Champion
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. He offered a blend of anti-government populism and free-market triumphalism in a pitch that was aimed at US capital as much as Canadian voters.
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.
Israel’s Young Settler Vanguard
In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.
Trump’s Latest AI Contract Clause Scraps Crucial Safeguards
A new Trump administration contracting clause would require AI companies like Anthropic to make their technology available to federal agencies “for any lawful government purpose” — even for uses their systems are designed to prevent.
Liverpool’s Municipal Socialists Took the Fight to Thatcher
Liverpool’s left-wing council led one of the most important struggles against Margaret Thatcher’s government during the 1980s. If other Labour-run councils had followed its lead, they could have inflicted a major blow to Thatcher’s agenda.
How Global Finance Drove Deindustrialization
Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.